[Android Apps and Games] SEVENDev:
Catching up on some past replies, if I miss anyone let me know.

Have you tried our latest release? We have a new UI, let us know what you think, we are still making changes and appreciate any feedback in this process.

Yes, if the VPN is off the firewall will be off. AdClear relies on using a local VPN to control the traffic of other apps.

AdClear tries to preemptively prevent any issues with sensitive apps. If there was an emergency and you needed your bank or medical info immediately we would not want AdClear to cause any issues with the process. AdClear uses filters that may match things unintentionally.

A browser extension is able to receive traffic from the current browser. AdClear needs to receive this traffic from the VPN if the traffic is encrypted, it is not visible to AdClear unless a trusted certificate is installed. It's not that we can't block without the certificate, its that we don't know when, where or what to block when the traffic is encrypted.

Let me clarify some points. Android caused issues when they made the switch not to trust user certificates by default in API 24, now apps have to explicitly tell Android they will trust our certificate if they target this Android version.

It is possible to block ads on YouTube without root using AdClear. But it requires additional setup.

You have a few options:

Use a third-party app that allows for YouTube to be installed within that apps user space. One app we have noticed like this is Parallel Space which can be found in the Play Store.

Use a third-party YouTube client.

Use YouTube from Chrome which trusts certificates.

Our team will continue to research blocking on Android N and above as well.

Toggling ad blocking off should whitelist the app. There will be no filtering of the app and it will completely bypass the local VPN.

Supporting custom host files and filters is something we have been looking into implementing and I agree this will be a nice feature. Quick settings and our widget are something we are working on and should have something to show in the near future. I have seen Blockada previously, this app is comparable to AdClear DNS blocking alone. AdClear has more blocking capability beyond just the DNS blocking.

This version contains element hiding which will make web pages look cleaner when blocking ads, this could be causing the issues. Can you send me a link where I can replicate it?

Hello, which download link is not working? If you need a link to our beta you can find that here: https://betas.to/x7G4yj92

We have received some reports of this and have just released a beta to fix this. We should be releasing that to the public soon if you would like you can try our beta here https://betas.to/x7G4yj92 or wait for the official release. Let us know if this works for you.

Hello, have you submitted a bug report in the in-app feedback? This would give us some UI log information to try and debug this. Was this on a fresh update or happened after some time?

This is interesting, are you able to replicate this after clearing the data?

We preemptively bypass the top messaging apps to prevent any issues with receiving or sending messages, are there ads in the app? We can allow blocking in this app and likely easily block these ads.